Joseph Ganem

Physicist

Joseph W. Ganem, Ph.D. is a professor of physics at Loyola University Maryland and an award-winning writer on science, education, and consumer issues.

Recent Book

• The Robot Factory: Pseudoscience in Education and Its Threat to American Democracy

Recent Commentaries

• It's time to rethink the purpose of standardized tests(Op-ed)
• Instead of a lockbox for Md. education funds, how about one for legislators' salaries?(Op-ed)
• Science in the self interest(Op-ed)
• The Common Core can't speed up child development(Op-ed)
• Your privacy, their profits(Op-ed)

Recent Invited Talks

• Seeing the Light: A brief history of our understanding of light leading to the invention of the laser, (Roland Park Women's Club, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 17, 2016)
• Synthesis and optical properties of rare earth-doped low-phonon energy materials, (World Congress of Smart Materials, Busan, Republic of Korea, March 24, 2015)
• How crystals amplify light to make lasers, (Society of Physics Students Induction, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, May 9, 2014)
• Use of Low-Phonon Energy Crystalline Hosts for Rare Earth-Doped Mid-infrared Lasers and Phosphors, (Collaborative Conference on Crystal Growth, Cancun, Mexico, June 11, 2013)